Trivia
Best Buy release
When first released, Best Buy had a special offer: the
Command and Conquer Soundtrack Collection (soundtrack from ALL C&C games) on CD for the first 100 buyers of
RA2 in every store.
Cover
To avoid sensitivity issues after the terrorist attacks on the WTC, EA is offering distributors and retailers new boxes that remove the "The Invasion Has Begun" motto and the pictures depicting NY under attack.
Editor
Final Alert was released alongside the patch 1.006, and it allows creating both multiplayer (skirmish, LAN, on-line) and solo (campaign) missions. You can level up terrains, place military units and buildings, civilians and objects. The editor can also be used for
Command & Conquer: Red Alert and
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
Music
Listening to the game's music very carefully, in the track
Blow It Up to be exact, you can notice the following text being said: "Gentlemen, this is a nuclear device, time is running out". Also, like in the first version of the song, in
Hell March 2 you can repeatedly hear: "Die Waffen, legt an!" ("Ready your weapons!" in German).
Sales
In 2000,
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Awards
- PC Player (Germany)
- Issue 01/2001 - Best Strategy Game in 2000
- Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland
- 2000 - Gold Award (more details in the "Sales" section)
Information also contributed by
MAT,
Kasey Chang,
paul cairey,
Xoleras and
Zovni
